
This document describes the files needed to reproduce the results reported in:


Rodríguez, I., Rodon, T., Unan, A., Herbig, L., Klüver, H., & Kuhn, T. "Benchmarking pandemic response: How the UK's COVID-19 vaccine rollout impacted popular support for the EU".

The reproduction files are as follows:



1. Folder 'Scripts':

	a. 00_Data cleaning.R script prepares all Eurobarometer data and merges observations with information on polarisation and COVID-19-related hospitalisations.

	b. 01_Manuscript figures and tables.R script reproduces the analyses shown in the figures and tables of the main body of the manuscript.

	c. 02_Appendix figures and tables.R script reproduces the analyses shown in the figures and tables of the online appendix.


2. Folder 'Raw data':

	a. 'hospitals.xlsx': Data on COVID-19-related hospitalisations. It can be downloaded from the ECDC website: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-data-hospital-and-icu-admission-rates-and-current-occupancy-covid-19

	b. '41304_2022_400_MOESM3_ESM.xlsx': Data on polarisation, extracted from the Comparative Political Polarisation Index (Vander Veen 2023). It can be found at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-022-00400-x

	- Eurobarometer public opinion files can be downloaded directly from the services distributing Eurobarometer data (GESIS and ICPSR). The data file names mentioned in the scripts correspond to the GESIS file names. It is located in the 'Raw data' folder.


3. Folder 'Data':

	a. 'brexit_attention_weekly.csv': Data on media attention to Brexit by week. Data was obtained through Python scraping of newspaper titles in Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland.

	b. 'data.RData': Clean data resulting from the '00_Data cleaning.R' file. Used in subsequent analyses.

	c. 'google_brexit.csv': Data on Google searches of the term Brexit. Data for this study was obtained from Google Trends, a publicly available tool that analyzes the popularity of search queries over time.

	d. 'ukvseu_vax.csv': Data on media attention to the UK, the EU and the vaccination process.


4. Folder 'Figures':

	a. 'Figure_1.png' through 'Figure_4.png': Figures included in the main body of the manuscript.

	b. 'app_figure_1.png' through 'app_figure_7.png': Figures included in the online appendix.


5. Folder 'Tables': 

	a. 'table_1.png': Table included in the main body of the manuscript.

	b. 'app_table_1.png' through 'app_table_11.png': Tables included in the online appendix.